Watch Me Fall
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Action Hero
Timeframe:
11/6/2008 - no end date
Description:
We're interested in the Daredevil. Those who attempt the impossible, the futility of those attempts and the inevitable fall from grace.
Watch Me Fall is an intimate live performance. It is an experiment with the relationship between an audience and an event. A celebration of failure, a study of human endeavour, and a test of our ability to find poignancy where there is none.
Last updates:
11/7/2008 12:20:52
Individuals:
- James Stenhouse co-artistic director (Project Moderator)
Regions:
South West,
Artforms:
Performance, Live Art, Experimental Theatre,
Details:
We're interested in people who jump over cars on motorbikes, but not the ones who do it nowadays. The ones like Evel Knievel, with limited preparation and bold rhetoric. We care about those who went over Niagra Falls in Barrels. Especially the one who survived the fall but then died the next year slipping on an orange peel. We like human cannon balls. We like their outfits and the way people cheer when they shoot across the sky.
In April of this year we re-enacted Evel Knievel's 1967 Caesar's palace jump in which he shattered his pelvis and spent 30 days in a coma. The audience cheered as we failed to travel the full distance required. We survived though, and we want to do it again.
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Events:
The following events are connected to this project:
- Watch Me Fall I've done this once before…..only this time, I'm going further. Action Hero have measured it out, done a few calculations and are confident that it could go either way. 'Watch Me Fall' is a work-in-progress, and is part of a new project that explore...
- Watch Me Fall Work-in-progress of our 'Watch Me Fall' at the Shunt Lounge Friday October 10th at 10pm. There will be fire and fountains. Come along and cheer us on. (photo: Beth Elliott)...
- Watch Me Fall *WATCH ME FALL * a performance by Action Hero Arnolfini Fri 20th Feb 7pm (as part of a double bill with Neil Callaghan & Simone Kenyon) tickets are £8/£6 Box office: 0117 9172300 In April 2008 we re-enacted Evel Knievel’s 1967 Caesar’s Palace moto...
- Action Hero Workshop Sat 16 May 2009 11:30am FREE (To secure a place please contact lj@thearches.co.uk) It's easy to rely on "what worked before" as a model for making new work. How can you step outside your comfort zone and take risks to move your practice forward? I...
- Action Hero Workshop Sat 16 May 2009 11:30am FREE (To secure a place please contact lj@thearches.co.uk) It's easy to rely on "what worked before" as a model for making new work. How can you step outside your comfort zone and take risks to move your practice forward? I...
- Action Hero workshop Sat 16 May 2009 The Arches, Glasgow 11:30am FREE (To secure a place please contact lj@thearches.co.uk) It's easy to rely on "what worked before" as a model for making new work. How can you step outside your comfort zone and take risks to move your ...
- Watch Me Fall Action Hero: Watch Me Fall The Arches, Glasgow Sat 16 May 2009 7pm £8/£6 concession " I'm going over in a barrel. I'm leaving the cannon, hitting the ramp at 90mph and clearing ten double decker buses. I might fall. I might break my body into se...
- Watch Me Fall Action Hero: Watch Me Fall BAC, London Wed 20 May 2009 7:30pm www.bac.co.uk " I'm going over in a barrel. I'm leaving the cannon, hitting the ramp at 90mph and clearing ten double decker buses. I might fall. I might break my body into several pi...
- Watch Me Fall A new performance by Action Hero, commissioned by Arnolfini, and touring the UK Oct - Dec. Watch Me Fall is for the daredevils. Its about our obsession with those who attempt the impossible, the futility of their attempts and their inevitable fall f...
- Watch Me Fall A new performance by Action Hero, commissioned by Arnolfini, and touring the UK Oct - Dec. Watch Me Fall is for the daredevils. Its about our obsession with those who attempt the impossible, the futility of their attempts and their inevitable fall f...
- Watch Me Fall 'Watch Me Fall' at Colchester Arts Centre tickets are £6 Box Office: 01206500900 A new performance by Action Hero touring the UK. Watch Me Fall is for the daredevils. Its about our obsession with those who attempt the impossible, the futility of ...
